Re: [PD] reading the textlist of the patch I'm in...
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 03:39:43PM +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: hi ed. Ed Kelly wrote: Hi chaps, I've come up against something I can't solve without a deeper understanding of pd's internal structure, I wonder if anyone can help. I'm trying to build patches that know about each instance of themselves when called as an abstraction, without the specification of creation arguments to identify multiple instances of the same patch. Basically I want to read the list of the ultimate parent from memory, like you would if you read the pd patch into a text editor such as emacs. I often edit patches in such an editor,and I find it allows access to information about the patch in a sequential form that is hard to get in PD (how many obj(ects) there are and in what order, what they are etc.) and now I am trying to build patches that extend themselves in realtime, I need to be able to read the patch I'm in. you probably want to have a look at the iemguts, which i just presented here at piksel. one of the basic goals of this libs is to add some kind of self awareness of abstractions. I think the proper name for this is 'introspection', unless I misunderstood. Chris. --- http://mccormick.cx ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] reading the textlist of the patch I'm in...
Chris McCormick wrote: I think the proper name for this is 'introspection', unless I misunderstood. yes. fgmasr IOhannes ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] reading the textlist of the patch I'm in...
hi ed. Ed Kelly wrote: Hi chaps, I've come up against something I can't solve without a deeper understanding of pd's internal structure, I wonder if anyone can help. I'm trying to build patches that know about each instance of themselves when called as an abstraction, without the specification of creation arguments to identify multiple instances of the same patch. Basically I want to read the list of the ultimate parent from memory, like you would if you read the pd patch into a text editor such as emacs. I often edit patches in such an editor,and I find it allows access to information about the patch in a sequential form that is hard to get in PD (how many obj(ects) there are and in what order, what they are etc.) and now I am trying to build patches that extend themselves in realtime, I need to be able to read the patch I'm in. you probably want to have a look at the iemguts, which i just presented here at piksel. one of the basic goals of this libs is to add some kind of self awareness of abstractions. mfgasr IOhannes ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
